132 GOLIATIIINUS AUREO-SPARSUS. 



extus in derdes duos validos acutos productae , tibiae inter- 

 mediae et posticae intus longe densegue nigro-pilosae. 



Long. 50 mm,, lat, 25 mm. 



Habitat: Barombi , Cameroous (W. Africa). 



Nitid black with brownish and olivaceous shades; the 

 elytra , with exception of the glabrous shoulders , and the 

 scutellum clothed with a brownish olivaceous tomentum , 

 interrupted on the elytra by numerous small , partly punc- 

 tiform golden spots, these spots are largest along the 

 outer-margins and almost absent around the scutellum , 

 the depressed sides of the scutellum are entirely occupied 

 by a golden stripe. The prothorax also shows a tomentose 

 patch just in face of tlie scutellum, its extension is likely 

 to be very variable, in this specimen it emits a tomentose 

 line forwards and there are on each side traces of an 

 other patch. Moreover the thorax is ornated with a golden 

 line just along the lateral margins (broadly interrupted 

 in our specimen) and an other oblique discal line origina- 

 ting at the front angles , where it is confluent with the 

 marginal line, aud extending in an oblique direction out- 

 wards up to about the middle; in our exponent this line 

 is also largely interrupted , its terminus being only indi- 

 cated by a punctiform spot , higher on in the prolongation 

 of the line. 



Head very strongly and roughly punctured; sides of the 

 clypeus gently rounded towards the front margin , which 

 is rather strongly elevated and truncated in a slightly 

 curved liue. The reflexed front part finely aud densely 

 punctured, 



Prothorax moderately convex, the anterior half strongly 

 reflexed and broadly but not very deeply excavated in the 

 middle , the lateral margins with a distinct narrow rim ; 

 the front margin deeply bisiuuate , much produced in the 

 middle, forming a large pointed glabrous tubercle, the 

 sides angularly dilated about the middle and narrowed 

 towards the base and the front (much more strongly to- 

 wards the latter) in almost straight lines, the basal lobe 



Notes from ttie Leyden üMuseum, Vol. XII. 



